Re: Gutting USAID

On 2/3/2025 8:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

The press is running for the fainting couch over Trump setting DOGE loose on
USAID with plans to gut the entire organization.
 Here's a small taste of what USAID has been doing with your tax money:
 --$1.5 million to advance DEI programs in Serbia's workplaces
 --$70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland
 --$47,000 to produce a transgender opera in Colombia
 --$32,000 to publish a transgender comic book in Peru
 ...and the list goes on.
 They don't need to just put a stop to outrageous spending of tax dollars on
crap like this, they need to burn down the entire organization and start from
scratch.
 Why, as an American taxpayer, do I even care if Serbia's workplaces have DEI,
let alone want to spend millions on it?!? If Serbia wants DEI, they can damn
well fund it themselves.
 Same with Ireland. If it loves DEI so much it wants to praise it in the form
of musical theater, then Ireland can pay for it.
 And Colombia... and Peru. Why in the fuck are we spending untold amounts of
our money on this crap in the first place, let alone for other countries?

Some backward nations don't recognize DEI as an unpardonable scourge...